diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index b1fd6cea80..7925410b7d 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 include LICENSE.txt INSTALL.txt README.txt MANIFEST.in
 include setup.py
-include nltk/nltk.jar
 include nltk/test/*.doctest
 include nltk/VERSION
-recursive-include javasrc *.java *.txt Makefile
+recursive-include *.txt Makefile
 global-exclude *~
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 49a7a2c27c..51a712a6a5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ demotest:
         -and -not -name brown_ic.py \
         -exec echo ==== '{}' ==== \; -exec python '{}' \;
 
-########################################################################
-# JAVA
-########################################################################
-
-jar: nltk/nltk.jar
-
-JAVA_SRC = $(shell find javasrc/org/nltk -name '*.java')
-nltk/nltk.jar: $(JAVA_SRC)
-	$(MAKE) -C javasrc jar
-	cp javasrc/nltk.jar nltk/nltk.jar
-
 ########################################################################
 # DISTRIBUTIONS
 ########################################################################
@@ -65,8 +54,6 @@ windist: clean_code
 
 clean: clean_code
 	rm -rf build iso dist api MANIFEST nltk-$(VERSION) nltk.egg-info
-	$(MAKE) -C javasrc clean
-#	rm -f nltk/nltk.jar
 
 clean_code:
 	rm -f `find nltk -name '*.pyc'`
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ac5dc56924..5905ac690d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
     'Topic :: Text Processing :: Indexing',
     'Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic',
     ],
-    package_data = {'nltk': ['nltk.jar', 'test/*.doctest', 'VERSION']},
+    package_data = {'nltk': ['test/*.doctest', 'VERSION']},
     packages = find_packages(),
     zip_safe=False, # since normal files will be present too?
     )